Comments on: Moving Advice? http://grandtextauto.org/2007/10/13/moving-advice/ A group blog about computer narrative, games, poetry, and art. Wed, 19 May 2010 01:52:58 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: noah http://grandtextauto.org/2007/10/13/moving-advice/comment-page-1/#comment-134204 noah Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:01:10 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=1616#comment-134204 Alex, thanks for the link. Yes, it looks like the main thing I should do is: be patient. Google and Yahoo will figure this out in time, given the 301 redirection, and MSN apparently will never figure it out (if the SEO Book link is correct) no matter what we do. As for Technorati, I hope the work week may bring a response to my help ticket. Alex, thanks for the link. Yes, it looks like the main thing I should do is: be patient. Google and Yahoo will figure this out in time, given the 301 redirection, and MSN apparently will never figure it out (if the SEO Book link is correct) no matter what we do.

As for Technorati, I hope the work week may bring a response to my help ticket.

]]> By: alexjc http://grandtextauto.org/2007/10/13/moving-advice/comment-page-1/#comment-134154 alexjc Sun, 14 Oct 2007 21:06:22 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=1616#comment-134154 Noah, I'm not sure exactly where that function is exactly; I only remember reading about it! I'll see if I can find more details... Also, this post seems to mention it takes time for traffic to build up again: http://www.seobook.com/archives/002343.shtml I'm sure it'll work out in a few weeks! Alex Noah, I’m not sure exactly where that function is exactly; I only remember reading about it! I’ll see if I can find more details…

Also, this post seems to mention it takes time for traffic to build up again:
http://www.seobook.com/archives/002343.shtml

I’m sure it’ll work out in a few weeks!

Alex

]]> By: noah http://grandtextauto.org/2007/10/13/moving-advice/comment-page-1/#comment-134141 noah Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:14:53 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=1616#comment-134141 Alex, thanks for the pointer. Unfortunately, even though I was able to verify myself for both domains, I couldn't find a way to tell Google about the redirect. Any further pointers on where to look? One thing I did find on the Google site was confirmation that 301 redirecting and getting people to change their in-links are both recommended strategies: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34464&topic=8523 Thanks Dennis! Alex, thanks for the pointer. Unfortunately, even though I was able to verify myself for both domains, I couldn’t find a way to tell Google about the redirect. Any further pointers on where to look?

One thing I did find on the Google site was confirmation that 301 redirecting and getting people to change their in-links are both recommended strategies:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34464&topic=8523

Thanks Dennis!

]]> By: alexjc http://grandtextauto.org/2007/10/13/moving-advice/comment-page-1/#comment-134135 alexjc Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:13:16 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=1616#comment-134135 Google webmaster central may help: http://www.google.com/webmasters/ Try claiming both domains. I think there's also a way to specify that you redirected one to the other... It's likely you won't carry as much influence in Google with the new domain. Subdomains of a popular site, and especially EDU domains, are given more trust... But you should be able to transfer all the raw PageRank with 301s. Alex Google webmaster central may help:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/

Try claiming both domains. I think there’s also a way to specify that you redirected one to the other…

It’s likely you won’t carry as much influence in Google with the new domain. Subdomains of a popular site, and especially EDU domains, are given more trust… But you should be able to transfer all the raw PageRank with 301s.

Alex

]]> By: Dennis G. Jerz http://grandtextauto.org/2007/10/13/moving-advice/comment-page-1/#comment-134131 Dennis G. Jerz Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:03:39 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=1616#comment-134131 "Successfully replaced 37 records." “Successfully replaced 37 records.”

]]> By: noah http://grandtextauto.org/2007/10/13/moving-advice/comment-page-1/#comment-134127 noah Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:17:13 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=1616#comment-134127 Steve, thanks for pointing out the help ticket mechanism. I hope they're willing to bring together all the various Technorati things from both versions of the blog (authority, fans, blog reactions) rather than just dispose of the old URL and its associated information. We don't write this blog for Technorati's sake, but it would be a shame to kill the 4 years of data they've gathered. Dennis, it would be great if you went through and changed all your permalink references to GTxA! Yes, all you should need to do is change instances of "grandtextauto.gatech.edu" to "grandtextauto.org". Steve, thanks for pointing out the help ticket mechanism. I hope they’re willing to bring together all the various Technorati things from both versions of the blog (authority, fans, blog reactions) rather than just dispose of the old URL and its associated information. We don’t write this blog for Technorati’s sake, but it would be a shame to kill the 4 years of data they’ve gathered.

Dennis, it would be great if you went through and changed all your permalink references to GTxA! Yes, all you should need to do is change instances of “grandtextauto.gatech.edu” to “grandtextauto.org”.

]]> By: Chris Lewis http://grandtextauto.org/2007/10/13/moving-advice/comment-page-1/#comment-134111 Chris Lewis Sun, 14 Oct 2007 02:22:09 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=1616#comment-134111 Google will catch up eventually, but it may be a week or two for a reindexing. A 301 redirect is the right way to do it. Google will catch up eventually, but it may be a week or two for a reindexing. A 301 redirect is the right way to do it.

]]> By: Dennis G. Jerz http://grandtextauto.org/2007/10/13/moving-advice/comment-page-1/#comment-134102 Dennis G. Jerz Sat, 13 Oct 2007 23:49:12 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=1616#comment-134102 My experience won't be very helpful... when I moved to a new school about 4 or 5 years ago, I had the host of my old academic website and weblog redirect to the new site, and after a handful of prominent blogs mentioned that I moved, Google found my new pages pretty quickly. As I recall, within a week or two all seemed fine. Of course, that was some time ago... maybe the shady search engine optimizers have exploited so many tricks that the natural, organic changeover that I experienced is more complicated now. The next time I get the chance I'll do a search-and-replace in my blog and change all my links to GTA permalinks ... I'm assuming all I need to do is replace the domain name? My experience won’t be very helpful… when I moved to a new school about 4 or 5 years ago, I had the host of my old academic website and weblog redirect to the new site, and after a handful of prominent blogs mentioned that I moved, Google found my new pages pretty quickly. As I recall, within a week or two all seemed fine. Of course, that was some time ago… maybe the shady search engine optimizers have exploited so many tricks that the natural, organic changeover that I experienced is more complicated now.

The next time I get the chance I’ll do a search-and-replace in my blog and change all my links to GTA permalinks … I’m assuming all I need to do is replace the domain name?

]]> By: steve http://grandtextauto.org/2007/10/13/moving-advice/comment-page-1/#comment-134086 steve Sat, 13 Oct 2007 20:19:25 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=1616#comment-134086 There's no automated way to tell Technorati a URL is a duplicate. I had to <a href="http://support.technorati.com/faq/topic/79?replies=1" rel="nofollow">submit a help ticket</a> recently to have the same problem fixed. There’s no automated way to tell Technorati a URL is a duplicate. I had to submit a help ticket recently to have the same problem fixed.

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